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That's a good idea, but I'm not really sure where you could do it and have it be reliable. There's a magnetic drain plug on it now that was empty and it was only 10 or 12 inches from where I found the schrapnel deposit.

I'm not saying it isn't a bearing cage, but if it is... it's really thin metal.

It's definitely not teeth. Well out of the entire pile there was one little tiny piece that looked like the very edge of a hardened race or gear. I'm suspecting that a piece of the other material was compressed out on the radius of a gear and possibly the pressure chipped off a small piece...

While doing a hydraulic oil service at 1600 hours, I found the pictured debris right down at the sump screen. The metal is like a sheet metal, unlike anytime I've ever had a bearing go bad. The odd thing is, the rest of the fluid was like new. There wasn't even a speck of debris when I...